Calculating Roster Verification “Your % Instruction”
When Multiple Teachers are Claiming Instructional
Responsibility for a Student
Sample Scenarios
April 2013
In determining the “Your % Instruction” field for each student in roster verification, a basic
computation of minutes responsible for instruction/minutes of total instruction
possible is used to determine the value in the field.
Minutes of total instruction possible: add up all minutes that the student is provided
instruction in the subject by all of his/her teachers (in co-teaching situations, the minutes are
only counted once).
Minutes responsible for instruction: add up the minutes that an individual teacher is
responsible for instruction.
Below are scenarios to provide guidance in applying this formula when more than one
teacher is claiming instructional responsibility:
o Team teaching
o Co-teaching model (with and without additional instruction outside of the
regular classroom)
o Instruction in addition to regular classroom (pull out)
 Team teaching
Scenario 1(Classroom teachers departmentalizing for instruction): Two elementary
school teachers team teach. One teacher teaches all students on the team reading/language
arts; the other teacher teaches all students math.
The roster verification lists are by homeroom so each teacher’s roster only shows
their homeroom students. Both teachers would add to their list the students from
the other teacher’s homeroom. The teacher teaching reading would claim 100% in
the “Your % Instruction” column and the teacher teaching math would claim
100% in the “Your % Instruction” column. The teachers would not complete a
roster for the subject they do not teach.
Scenario 2 (Classroom teachers regrouping and teaching all students on a grade
level): Three 6th grade math teachers team teach. They share students throughout the year
grouping and regrouping for instruction based on pre-testing at the beginning of units.
Each math teacher would list all of the 6th grade students on his/her roster and
claim 33% of the responsibility for each student’s math instruction.
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 Co-teaching
Scenario 1(Co-teaching with a Classroom and EC teacher): An elementary teacher
teaches a literacy block that is 150 minutes per day, 5 days a week. Therefore, the student
receives 750 minutes per week of reading instruction. An EC teacher shares this
responsibility with the classroom teacher in a co-teaching model for 3 days of the week for
the entire period.
Calculation:
Add up the total amount of minutes that reading instruction is provided to the
student(s) receiving exceptional education services. (You will want to use a week since
all days of the week are not the same).
The teacher teaches 150 minutes of reading x 5 days per week = 750 minutes per week of
reading instruction.
Determine how much time the Classroom teacher and the EC teacher share
instructional responsibility for the exceptional education students in a co-teaching
situation.
The EC teacher is in the classroom for the entire 150-minute literacy block 3 days a week.
For those three days of instruction the two teachers would each claim responsibility for
50% of the instruction for that student. (150 minutes x 3 days = 450 minutes; 450 x 50%
responsibility= 225 minutes for each of the two teachers.
Determine how much time each teacher teaches the exceptional education student
outside of the co-teaching time.
Two days of the week the classroom teacher and EC teacher are not co-teaching. (150
minutes x 2 days = 300 minutes of instruction provided by classroom teacher outside of
the co-teaching to the exceptional education student(s)).
The EC teacher does not provide instruction outside of the 3 days of co-teaching to the
exceptional education student(s).
Calculate:
 Classroom teacher
225 minutes for the three days with co-teaching
+300 minutes for the two days with no co-teaching
525 minutes of the 750 minutes of reading instruction

Divide the number of minutes the teacher is responsible for instruction by the total
number of minutes of reading instruction possible
525/750 = 70% for the classroom teacher (30% for the EC teacher)
The classroom teacher would enter 70% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s)
receiving exceptional education services.
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 EC teacher
225 minutes for the three days with co-teaching
+ 0 minutes beyond the co-teaching time
225 minutes of the 750 minutes of reading instruction

Divide the number of minutes the EC teacher is responsible for instruction by the
total number of minutes of reading instruction possible
225/750 = 30% for the EC teacher (70% for the Classroom teacher)
The EC teacher would enter 30% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s) on
his/her caseload.
Scenario 2 (Co-teaching with a Classroom and EC teacher plus additional pull out
EC instruction):
A middle school teacher teaches an ELA class that is 70 minutes per day, 5 days a week.
Therefore, the student receives 350 minutes per week of ELA instruction during the ELA class.
An EC teacher shares this responsibility with the classroom teacher in a co-teaching model 3
days per week and also provides an additional 30 minutes of instruction daily at a different
time of the day.
Calculation:
Add up the total amount of minutes that ELA instruction is provided to the student(s)
receiving exceptional education services. (You will want to use a week since all days of the
week are not the same).
70 minutes x 5 = 350 minutes of ELA instruction in the classroom
30 minutes x 5 = 150 minutes of ELA instruction with the EC teacher
Total ELA per week = 500 minutes
Determine how much time the Classroom teacher and the EC teacher provide
instruction during the ELA period in a co-teaching situation.
The EC teacher is in the ELA classroom for the entire 70 minute period 3 days a week. For
those three days of instruction the two teachers each claim responsibility for 50% of the
instruction for that student. (70 minutes x 3 days = 210 minutes; 210 x 50% = 105
minutes for each of the two teachers.
Determine how much time each teacher teaches the student(s) receiving exceptional
education services outside of the co-teaching time.
Two days of the week the classroom teacher teaches without the EC teacher (no coteaching). (70 minutes x 2 days = 140 minutes of instruction by the classroom teacher
outside of co-teaching)
The EC teacher provides 30 minutes a day of instruction outside of the co-teaching time
(30 minutes x 5 days = 150 minutes).
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Calculate:
 Classroom teacher
105 minutes for the three days with co-teaching
+140 minutes for the two days with no co-teaching
245 minutes of the 500 minutes of ELA instruction

Divide the number of minutes the teacher is responsible for instruction by the total
number of minutes of reading instruction possible
245/500 = 49% for the classroom teacher (51% for the EC teacher)
The classroom teacher would enter 49% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s)
receiving exceptional education services.
 EC teacher
105 minutes for the three days with co-teaching
+150 minutes for the additional 30 minutes of daily instruction
255 minutes of the 500 minutes of reading instruction

Divide the number of minutes the EC teacher is responsible for instruction by the
total number of minutes of reading instruction possible
255/500 = 51% for the EC teacher (49% for the classroom teacher)
The EC teacher would enter 51% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s) on
his/her EC caseload/roster.
Scenario 3 (Co-teaching with a Classroom and ESL teacher plus ESL pull out
during the same class): A high school English teacher teaches a 90-minute English II class,
5 days a week. He co-teaches with an ESL teacher each day. Two days of the week, the student
leaves the class for 40 minutes to work with the ESL teacher in a small group.
Calculation:
Add up the total amount of minutes that English II instruction is provided to the child.
(You will want to use a week since all days of the week are not the same).
90 minutes of English II instruction 5 days a week = 450 minutes of English II instruction
per week
Determine how much time the Classroom teacher and the ESL teacher provide
instruction during the English II period in a co-teaching situation.
The classroom teacher and the ESL teacher co-teach English II for the entire 90 minute
period 3 days a week. For those three days of instruction the two teachers each claim
responsibility for 50% of the instruction for that student. (90 minutes x 3 days = 270
minutes; 270 x 50% = 135 minutes for each of the two teachers).
Two days a week the two teachers co-teach for 50 minutes (50 minutes x 2 days = 100
minutes; 100 x 50% = 50 minutes for each of the two teachers).
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Determine how much time each teacher teaches the student outside of the co-teaching
time.
The English II teacher does not provide instruction to the student outside of the coteaching time.
The ESL teacher provides 40 minutes 2 days a week outside of the co-teaching time.
Calculate:
 Classroom teacher
135 min of instruction with co-teaching (50% of the 3 days per week for 90 min)
50 min of instruction with co-teaching (50% of the 2 days per week for 50 min)
+

0 minutes of instruction not involving co-teaching
185 minutes of the 450 minutes of English II instruction
Divide the number of minutes the classroom teacher is responsible for instruction
by the total number of minutes of English II instruction possible
185/450 = 41% for the English II teacher (59% for the ESL teacher)
The English II teacher would enter 41% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s)
receiving ESL services.
 ESL teacher
135 minutes of instruction with co-teaching (3 days per week)
50 minutes of instruction with co-teaching (2 days per week)
+
80 minutes of instruction not involving co-teaching (40 min 2 days per week)
265 minutes of the 450 minutes of English II instruction

Divide the number of minutes the ESL teacher is responsible for instruction by the
total number of minutes of English II instruction possible
265/450 = 59% for the ESL teacher (41% for the Classroom teacher)
The ESL teacher would enter 59% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s) on
his/her ESL caseload/roster.
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 Additional instruction provided outside of the regular classroom (pull
out)
Scenario 1(Classroom teacher provides math instruction with additional pull out
math instruction from AIG teacher): An elementary school teacher teaches a 50-minute
math class. In addition to the math class taught by the classroom teacher, the student receives
40 minutes of math instruction from the AIG teacher 3 days a week.
Calculation:
Add up the total amount of minutes that math instruction is provided to the child. (You
will want to use a week since all days of the week are not the same).
The math class is 50 minutes per day. The AIG teacher provides an additional 40 minutes 3
days per week (50 minutes x 5 = 250; 40 x 3 = 120) for a total of 370 minutes per week of
math instruction.
Determine how much time each teacher teaches the student.
The classroom teacher has full responsibility for the instruction during the math class 5
days a week for 50 minutes or 250 minutes a week.
The AIG teacher teaches the student for 40 minutes, 3 days per week for 120 minutes per
week.
Calculate:
 Classroom teacher
250 minutes for the math instruction during class period
+
0 minutes of instruction in addition to the class period
250 minutes of the 370 minutes of Math instruction
Divide the number of minutes the classroom teacher is responsible for instruction by
the total number of minutes of math instruction possible
250/370 = 68% for the classroom teacher (32% for the AIG teacher)
The classroom teacher would enter 68% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s)
receiving AIG services.
 AIG teacher
120 minutes of the math instruction during pull out session
+
0 minutes of math instruction provided in another setting
120 minutes of the 370 minutes of Math instruction

Divide the number of minutes the AIG teacher is responsible for instruction by the
total number of minutes of math instruction possible
120/370 = 32% for the AIG teacher (68% for the Math teacher)
The AIG teacher would enter 32% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s) on
his/her AIG caseload/roster.
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Scenario 2 (Classroom teacher provides reading instruction with additional pull
out reading instruction from reading specialist) : In addition to the 90 minute literacy
block in a third grade classroom, a reading specialist pulls a student for 35 minutes of
additional reading instruction daily.
Calculation:
Add up the total amount of minutes that reading instruction is provided to the child.
(You may use a daily computation since all days of the week are the same).
The reading class is 90 minutes per day. The reading teacher provides an additional 35
minutes per day (90 minutes + 35 minutes) for a total of 125 minutes per day of reading
instruction.
Determine how much time each teacher teaches the student.
The classroom teacher has full responsibility for the instruction during the 90 minute
reading class.
The reading teacher teaches the student for 35 minutes daily.
Calculate:
 Classroom teacher
90 minutes for the reading instruction period
+ 0 minutes of instruction in addition to the class period
90 minutes of the 125 minutes of reading instruction

Divide the number of minutes the classroom teacher is responsible for instruction
by the total number of minutes of reading instruction possible
90/125 = 72% for the classroom teacher (28% for the reading teacher)
The classroom teacher would enter 72% in the “Your % Instruction” for the student(s)
receiving reading services.
 Reading teacher
35 minutes of the reading instruction during pull out session
+
0 minutes of reading instruction provided in another setting
35 minutes of the 125 minutes of Reading instruction

Divide the number of minutes the reading teacher is responsible for instruction by
the total number of minutes of reading instruction possible
35/125 = 28% for the reading teacher (72% for the classroom teacher)
The reading teacher would enter 28% in the “Your % Instruction” for the
student(s) on his/her reading caseload/roster.
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